p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; text-align: center;" data-p-id="0d067a3035c67d78cb2409c69d4ea82d"Issue 11/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f9adef795558a3b571bebd37f2abce7f" "Man, us superheroes really need to come up with a good system for getting a hold of each other!" Petra said as she flipped from rooftop to rooftop./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="9c4253d59346bf82ccf27a999de52aaa" Her current course was taking her deeper into the heart of Brooklyn as she searched for a certain living legend. She had already stopped by Avengers Mansion, but the butler, Jarvis, as Petra had come to learn he was named, told her that Captain America was currently out in the city, though he had no idea where. So with a sigh, Petra left, traveling further down Manhattan, before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn, where she now hoped that she would find the fabled Captain hanging out in his favorite stomping grounds./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="27187e85770a7dbe9e2081413daa24ac" "Anybody? He carries around a shield that looks like the lid of a garbage can. Two wings sticking out of the sides of his mask? Has anybody here seen him?" Petra prompted./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d5fbc44d17c1fa35735d56f22887bf14"em style="box-sizing: border-box;" I'd complain about people being rude, but this is New York. I'm still at square one, with no leads. /emPetra thought, frustrated. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Part of me is kind of hoping that I don't even find him, Cap's always been a little...intimidating./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c07b3925a78eb72f8eb553d32c9d7b44" After what felt like hours of searching, Petra's attention was drawn by the sounds of laser guns firing in the distance. She pivoted mid-swing and rushed in that direction, soon coming upon an old two-story building in an area filled with warehouses. The building was filled with the sounds of lasers, men shouting, and the occasional sound of maniacal, nasally laughter. Many, MANY, laser bolts were flying through windows, and breaking holes in the walls. Without so much as a thought, Petra swung toward one of the windows, smashing through it and stumbling upon a scene of complete and utter chaos./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="ef358cc8e986a6647dedb069605d3fbd" "It's Spider-Woman!" One of them shouted./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c4383772af46e54b4bd75430f411ee5b" "Oh! I heard there was a party on this street!" Petra said as she sucker-punched one of the goons. "I figured I'd crash it!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f0beda4debdd8afdd7ec433b81f1c9ba" "What are you doing here?" Captain America asked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="fbafeb6969f453023c30c3be2ce3e300" "Uh, I was looking for you, actually," Petra said, throwing out a high kick that struck one of the goons' jaws, "we need to talk, it's important."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d21911494cae1711add5642a040ea410" "I'm always happy to sit down and talk to a fellow hero, but first we need to take out A.I.M. and M.O.D.O.K.!" He said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="61ee32fb85c46f82d5497672eea59e36" "Okay, so I know what A.I.M. is, but what's a M.O.D.O.K.?" Petra asked./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a4cedb2275a7d29c5011f68883b102c6" That may have been an understatement. M.O.D.O.K.'s oversized face appeared as nothing more than a square, covered by the cylindrical hoverchair that suspended his disproportionate body. Deep lines cracked his scrunched-up, pasty face, with brown hair that was chopped into a bowl cut. His teeth were lined up in long, thin, and jagged rows, further exposed by a severely receding gum line./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2c8193d0931f6436861fd4882e3087a0" "I AM THE MENTAL ORGANISM DESIGNED ONLY FOR KILLING! AND YOU WERE FOOLS TO THINK YOU COULD STOP ME!" He shouted./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c353deb233060e8ab5c855cb4f75931b" "What is it with supervillains and the word "fool?" Petra said, before shooting a web into M.O.D.O.K.'s eyes. "And if you're the Mental Organism Designed Only For Killing, then shouldn't you be called M.O.D.O.F.K.?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4749d9d0b7e2c8b80376f54a3dae65fa" "K-kill them!" M.O.D.O.K. shouted./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="098d4a1777a9b31da24b3741de56e677" "You think that you can stop me just because you defeated my pathetic drones?" M.O.D.O.K. shouted./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="87de427e02b42ebc688a4d015d296f98" Bolt after bolt was fired, with Petra and the Captain narrowly avoiding each one. The pair split up, each hiding behind different columns. The Captain looked at her and then pointed at his shield. He then pointed behind him, indicating M.O.D.O.K., and pointed to her, then waved in the opposite direction. Petra nodded in understanding and prepared to jump back out. Captain America braced himself, then placed his shield in his right hand, turned out of the cover of the column, and threw his shield. Petra leaped out a moment after, just as the shield collided with M.O.D.O.K.'s forehead, causing him to let out a cry of pain./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="b3533028b3b37071a7a1fb6048bc3f0e" M.O.D.O.K. turned to her just as she started shooting a rapid-fire barrage of webs into his face./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a859a4eb9298baf8f5b6b93c5ac475a6" "So, what do we do with these guys?" Petra asked./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="3143ad0d85f0f8c9b2b9d2cccdfc34f0" "I'm just-uh, busy! All the time! That's all." Petra said, shaking her head as she backed away from him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f0cec061612c1f1e2ba615f17a0416f7" "I love you, Petra." She said. "And I'm going to say that every day for the rest of my life from now on! Life's too short, and this whole thing has given me a new perspective!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7434c23921514dc7503ed113ed24ccc3" "Oh, it was really no problem, May! We're all just glad that you're finally free to leave the hospital!" Anna said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8fd47861b08e049adb1a11714e96735f" "Come on May, let's get out of this stuffy place!" MJ cheerily exclaimed./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d9912551c4570e20106d4be860e09bd4"AVENGERS: UNDER SIEGE PRELUDE, PART II:/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d38e4bae22056843048b35bdb3ec136a" Janet Van Dyne stared blankly at an open locker. It was just one in a large row of them, situated in a small room in Avengers Mansion, which contained the current and past costumes of everyone who had ever been on the famed team. This locker specifically held a reminder of a still fresh and still very sore memory. At least, the locker em style="box-sizing: border-box;"should /emhave contained it. The costume normally hanging inside was bright hazard yellow and black, with a black cowl that left only the lower half of the wearer's face exposed, and yellow eye lenses. On the sides of the cowl, where one's ears would be, were yellow antennae, which pointed straight into the air, reaching just above the head. On the shoulders, where the bulk of the black color scheme lay, before it trailed off around the waist and gave way to yellow, were two black protrusions, rounded on the edges, and giving the vague appearance of wings. Notably, the black chest of the suit displayed the simplistic yellow silhouette of a yellowjacket, representative of the codename of the former owner of the costume, her ex-husband, "Hank" Henry Pym, who was now court-martialled, expelled from the Avengers, and completely disgraced. But it wasn't there anymore. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Somebody had stolen it./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f9adef795558a3b571bebd37f2abce7f" "Man, us superheroes really need to come up with a good system for getting a hold of each other!" Petra said as she flipped from rooftop to rooftop./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="9c4253d59346bf82ccf27a999de52aaa" Her current course was taking her deeper into the heart of Brooklyn as she searched for a certain living legend. She had already stopped by Avengers Mansion, but the butler, Jarvis, as Petra had come to learn he was named, told her that Captain America was currently out in the city, though he had no idea where. So with a sigh, Petra left, traveling further down Manhattan, before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn, where she now hoped that she would find the fabled Captain hanging out in his favorite stomping grounds./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c07b3925a78eb72f8eb553d32c9d7b44" After what felt like hours of searching, Petra's attention was drawn by the sounds of laser guns firing in the distance. She pivoted mid-swing and rushed in that direction, soon coming upon an old two-story building in an area filled with warehouses. The building was filled with the sounds of lasers, men shouting, and the occasional sound of maniacal, nasally laughter. Many, MANY, laser bolts were flying through windows, and breaking holes in the walls. Without so much as a thought, Petra swung toward one of the windows, smashing through it and stumbling upon a scene of complete and utter chaos./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f0beda4debdd8afdd7ec433b81f1c9ba" "What are you doing here?" Captain America asked./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="61ee32fb85c46f82d5497672eea59e36" "Okay, so I know what A.I.M. is, but what's a M.O.D.O.K.?" Petra asked./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="093e5946a2265ea944e122fcb51e5bab" "Yeah. We should probably go somewhere else. Preferably where they won't see me."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="e688ac133089386b902408d2562945ca" "Oh. Again, really sorry for your loss, I, uh, I get it." Petra responded./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2aa3088faeaac632deca42de9cd74079" As always when she was around the super-soldier, she was quietly uncomfortable. The Captain gave her a kind smile, and then handed her a cup of tea. He took a sip from his own cup, then pulled his cloth mask off, revealing his statuesque face and bright blonde hair. He walked over to the living room couch, sat down on one end, and beckoned for Petra to join him. She obliged, sitting on the opposite end, and placing her cup of tea on the glass coffee table in front of the couch./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="6634fe31c6c9a7c382ccf10fee61d00f" "Yeah. I just figured that you of all people should know about what's been happening." Petra said./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="3143ad0d85f0f8c9b2b9d2cccdfc34f0" "I'm just-uh, busy! All the time! That's all." Petra said, shaking her head as she backed away from him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="2b01d6224b7d3a34edb809ab74f1ed51" "Tend to be what?" Captain America prompted./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="1a09d6e83d20dad80382776b9db339ca" "Uh, sure?" Petra responded./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="1d83656dbb2b4972b12ba54a1a21c94e" "Before I was born, my mother and my father got married, then immigrated here, to this very borough, from Ireland. They had hoped to find work, freedom from the tyranny of the British, and the opportunity to build their own lives. Instead, they were only faced with more oppression. They were seen as second-class citizens. My father struggled to find work that paid well, and it eventually drove him to alcohol to cope."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8d9608b6186a824f221195b7c3e6c1ef" "Eventually, it was just my mother and I, and she struggled to take care of me on her own. I grew up seeing the harshness and the contradictions of America, but I still chose to put on this costume, to wear this flag, in the hopes that I could help better my country. Learning about the current state of the country after I woke up was disappointing. Things are certainly better, but not where I hoped we would be. But back to my point, it doesn't matter to me who you are under that mask, where you came from, or how you identify, all I care about is whether or not you have the guts to do the right thing. And from everything that I've seen, I'd say you have that in spades."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4a7d9d0736182a40f5400d633da8d83d" "I apologize for my long-winded speech, I'm told that it gets annoying. I'm just trying to make you understand that no matter who you are, you're always welcome around me, and in my home."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="da55778a4e353880f3bffa3a04fa4e42" "Thank you, that...means a lot to me." She said./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="bb7bda9aec2a9081f7888b0380caf753" "Whoa, careful Aunt May! You're still recovering, you can't be too acti-!" Petra said before she was cut off by May grabbing her in a firm hug./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="f0cec061612c1f1e2ba615f17a0416f7" "I love you, Petra." She said. "And I'm going to say that every day for the rest of my life from now on! Life's too short, and this whole thing has given me a new perspective!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="c2fbc323a216270fc1851246e39e7b38" "Thank you two for coming as well. And thanks for taking care of Petra while I was gone!" She said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7434c23921514dc7503ed113ed24ccc3" "Oh, it was really no problem, May! We're all just glad that you're finally free to leave the hospital!" Anna said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8fd47861b08e049adb1a11714e96735f" "Come on May, let's get out of this stuffy place!" MJ cheerily exclaimed./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="8eff7577706777eaee489dae28511330" "Come on, let's take you home!" She said./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d9912551c4570e20106d4be860e09bd4"AVENGERS: UNDER SIEGE PRELUDE, PART II:/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d38e4bae22056843048b35bdb3ec136a" Janet Van Dyne stared blankly at an open locker. It was just one in a large row of them, situated in a small room in Avengers Mansion, which contained the current and past costumes of everyone who had ever been on the famed team. This locker specifically held a reminder of a still fresh and still very sore memory. At least, the locker em style="box-sizing: border-box;"should /emhave contained it. The costume normally hanging inside was bright hazard yellow and black, with a black cowl that left only the lower half of the wearer's face exposed, and yellow eye lenses. On the sides of the cowl, where one's ears would be, were yellow antennae, which pointed straight into the air, reaching just above the head. On the shoulders, where the bulk of the black color scheme lay, before it trailed off around the waist and gave way to yellow, were two black protrusions, rounded on the edges, and giving the vague appearance of wings. Notably, the black chest of the suit displayed the simplistic yellow silhouette of a yellowjacket, representative of the codename of the former owner of the costume, her ex-husband, "Hank" Henry Pym, who was now court-martialled, expelled from the Avengers, and completely disgraced. But it wasn't there anymore. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Somebody had stolen it./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="a138bdfafe51069da42d33c9896f6012" Janet, still in her red and black Wasp costume, reached out and grabbed the locker door, slamming it shut in a fit of anger, and let out a frustrated scream./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="215bb884f9a2c6d85e72e87638426b8f" "Jan? Is that you in there?" A voice called./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="ae52c90a227dbb2c2f606f770506c365" The door to the locker room opened, and Captain Marvel walked in. She was in costume as well. It had started off as a Mardis Gras outfit that she had quickly thrown on when she first got her powers. It was silver and black, with a black star on the chest, and a silver mask covering the upper half of her face. Janet turned to her, outrage evident on her face./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="9186692a87a1bd08e14dab10e075ffa9" "What's wrong, Janet?" She asked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="b4ea2c9f1a640725bd36ab645d883df6" "Hank's costume is gone. Somebody stole it from right under our noses!" Janet said, a seething fury underlying her tone./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="79d4251e77ff270d920056010c0be872" Janet grabbed her Avengers I.D. card from a concealed pocket in her suit, then pressed down on the communicator button and shouted into it./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="fad3a44074f88a034b6f6ae3521b5a14" "Avengers, ASSEMBLE!"/p